Is there an equivalent to producer / consumer design patterns in LabWindows-CVI?

[Ray.R]

I must convert a LabVIEW-Program to LabWindows-CVI.  Unfortunately, there does not appear to be code templates available in CVI that compare with those from LabVIEW, or are there?  🙂

[ebalci]

Hello Ray, 

Never heard of such templates in CVI, at least built-in ones. It is possible to have project templates but only if you put them in first.

If only, CVI had a much wider user base. Then maybe we would be enjoying such nice improvements. 

[RobertoBozzolo · Accepted solution]

I second ebalci wishes!

Just want to add that CVI already offers the ability to load template projects so it could be not so difficult to create and distribute new templates. I have this in the to-do list but as you surely know time waits for no man! 

Coming to your question, the best equivalent to producer-consumer paradigm I can think of in CVI environment is a multithreaded application with thread-safe queues used to pass data from the producer loop to the consumer one.

CVI offers some documentation and some examples that you may look at to have a starting point for your task: examples are located in <CVISamplesFolder>\Utility\Threading, whereas the documentation is integrated in Creating Applications >> Creating Multithreaded Applications chapter of CVI Help that I suggest you to read as it gives several useful concepts and hints on this matter. I'm pretty sure you know the multithreading paradigm very well so you may transverse the documentation looking only for CVI-specific information.